Improvement in fishing-jack



KIRK & BELKNAP, Burner for Fishing Lamp.

No. 92,730. I Patented July 20, 1869.

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MARCUS D. KIRK AND WlLL IA-M H. BELNAP, OF STURGIS, MICHIGAN Letters Patent No. 92,730, dated m 20, 1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern p Be it known that we, MARCUS D. KIRK and WIL- LIAM H. BELNAP, of Sturgis, in the county of St. Joseph, and State of Michigan, have invented an Improved Fishing-Jack; and'we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and letters marked thereon, makiug'a partof this description, in which Figurel is a perspective representation of our improrved fishing-jack.

Figure 2, a. vertical section of the burner.

Figure 3, a perspective representation of the per- "forated cylinder in the'centre of the wick.

The present invention relates to an improvement in that class of lights which are used more especially by persons spearing fish; and

Its nature consists in the novel construction of the burner, in combination with a supply-pipe and oilreservoir, as hereinafter fully described.

A represents a reservoir, which is made of sheetmetal, and to hold about two gallons of gasoline, and

it is provided at its top with a. perforated cone, E, to prevent explosion.

The lower end of the reservoir is fastened to a vertical pipe, 0, turned at right angles at F, and provided in all of the figures, through which the gasoline passes outward and saturates the wick W.

Holes being made through the pipe D, allow the .old cotton cloth, as most convenient, bringing the strips over the edges, as shown at figs. 1 and 2.-

After this, the plate I is brought down on to the wick, and the latter trimmed ofi' even. The reservoir is then supplied with gasoline, or such other burningliquid asis suitable.

The light required is now obtained by the flow of gasoline allowed to pass from the cock G to the burning-wick W, and by regulating the pressure of the plate I on the wick.

The jackmay besupported by any device most convenient, but a crane, shown at X Y Z, is found to answer that purpose well.

, Having thus described our invention,

What we claim, and desire to -secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is p v The burner, consisting of the plates I 1', cylinder V, spring I, and nut N, in combination with the pipes D B F G, stop-cock G, and reservoir A, asdescribed.

MARCUS D. KIRK. WILLIAM H. BELNAP.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL VALENTINE,

THOMAS HILL, Jr. 

